Prof. L. Felipe Perrone collaborated with Prof. Tom Henderson (University of Washington) and Prof. George Riley (Georgia Tech) on a project idea submitted to the CISE Computing Research Infrastructure program in the National Science Foundation's Computer and Network Systems. The proposal, entitled "CI-ADDO-EN: Frameworks for ns-3", competed against 228 other proposals and ranked among the 18% to 20% selected for funding. Over the span of 4 years, this project will bring $200,000 to Bucknell University, which will be used to purchase state-of-the-art computing resources, to provide summer support and travel funds for the faculty and the undergraduate students involved.

The original ns-3 project was led by Profs. Henderson and Riley and funded by a previous NSF award; it resulted in a new simulator for computer networks that is being adopted by researchers around the world and becoming a standard. ns-3 is a free, open source simulator that continues to evolve thanks to a growing community of developers.

In the new project, Prof. Perrone joins the team to lead the development of a framework for ns-3 that automates the processes of defining and staging simulations, and of processing output data. This initiative fits within a research agenda that encompasses an honors thesis by Chris Kenna (BS CS '08), and peer-reviewed publications in international conferences, which were co-authored by Bucknell Computer Science students [1, 2, 3].

The development of the automation framework for ns-3 will create additional opportunities for undergraduate research at Bucknell in the form of independent studies, summer research, and honors theses. Currently, the following students are involved in this project:

Bryan Ward (BCSE '11), who participated in the development of a similar framework for a different simulator and whose experience will make strong contributions to the new project.

Andrew Hallagan (BCSE '11), who has been working on the development of languages for describing network simulation models and experiments.

Tali Sason (BS CPEG '13), whose summer research work in 2010 will focus on techniques related to simulation control and output data processing.

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